Seven years after she vanished without a trace, a female anthropologist emerged from a mysterious cave where authorities believe she may have been held hostage by real-life elves!Danish researcher Kalena Søndergaard was stark naked, covered by dust and babbling incoherently when rescuers found her outside a tiny opening in the famous Elf Rock, traditionally believed to house the underground dwelling place of mankind’s tiny cousins.“She was crouching like an animal and spoke only in a language unrelated to any we know,” said Armor Guðjohnsen of the National Rescue Service, which airlifted the 31-year-old survivor to a hospital by helicopter.

Bob, I hate to be the one to shatter your illusions but this story is published on a fiction site.

Also :

The author of this article wrote the blood-curdling horror novel Hour of the Beast, considered by many the best werewolf story since The Howling. In the shocking and controversial first 13 pages, a young bride is raped by a werewolf on her wedding night. After that, things start to get out of hand.

Yeeesh... so when, exactly do you start to consider that hings have gone "out of hand" ?

Today I'm proud of my state and neighboring city San Francisco as it was transformed into Gotham for a day for a Make-A-Wish gift. This project has drawn attention not just from the entire god damn Bay Area, but the California DoJ got in on the action by sending him their plans on how to prosecute the Riddler and Penguin and he also received messages from Pres Obama and VP Biden.

Right, some of you may be aware of the Finnish Valkee-earlight, which claims to treat seasonal affective disorder, depression, jetlag and other such problems. It's essentially a pair of led lights you stick in your ears, five euros worth of components sold for 200 euros. It was touted as the next Nokia (well, everything up here is…), won some prizes, had great visibility up here…

…except it looks like they led with marketing and a start-up-"can do" attitude instead of research, and may have actually fudged some research results that showed a placebo worked better than their lights.

I've been digging in to this a bit, including reading their research which they claim is a proof of efficacy. The site I linked made the company go into a rather active PR damage control mode, and they are pretty quick to reply to criticism in for example Twitter. The fact is, their proof so far seems to be pretty flimsy, and frankly I have a big problem with their "marketing first, proof later" approach to selling a very expensive product that can be seen to prey on vulnerable people, such as those who are depressed. A case in point, their next "proof" of efficacy is a press release. "The newly presented results will next be submitted for a peer-reviewed publication." A-yup… So, academic publishing via media? Stay classy. They have been complaining that peer reviewed publishing may take three years and they just couldn't wait that long. I can't be the only one who has a problem with selling an expensive device that claims to have health benefits before the said health benefits are actually demonstrated in a double-blind placebo study?

Honestly, if this was or turned out to be an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder, depression etc. I'd be on the front lines of cheering this innovation and marketing it, but so far it seems to gather quite a many ticks in the "alternative medicine hoax" checklist. I wish I was wrong, but doesn't really look like it…

Carleton University Students’ Association is cancelling Shinerama, the school’s popular fundraiser for cystic fibrosis, after the council said the fatal disease is not “inclusive” enough. The motion, which passed 17 to 2 at the association’s Nov. 24 meeting, read: “Whereas Cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men…Be it resolved that: CUSA discontinue its support of this campaign.”

Nuh uh! No way! That's also not totally accurate. It's not JUST white people, just more common in white people. It's also diagnosed in men and women equally—but for some reason women die faster. Even the article says that!!